I wanted to poke her eyes out!!

[eensor]

Before my beloved Gracie died, people used to say things like "my aunt has one of those but its much smaller!" Gracie was 6 lbs. and absolutely beautiful! She had a perfect face and beautiful hair and coloring! People can be ignorant! Like the people who tell you to your face you've gotten fat! I always say "thank you for telling me that, I wondered why my clothes didn't fit anymore!"

[red98vett]

It sounds crude but you could a good answer for any fat comments is....

I may be fat but I can ALWAYS lose weight ....Ugly (or Ignorance) is forever.

I'm NOT saying you're fat by any means !!! I don't know what you look like but no one should have to put up with ANY comments regarding weight !

[eensor]

Originally Posted by red98vett

It sounds crude but you could a good answer for any fat comments is....

I may be fat but I can ALWAYS lose weight ....Ugly (or Ignorance) is forever.

I'm NOT saying you're fat by any means !!! I don't know what you look like but no one should have to put up with ANY comments regarding weight !

I am! LOL But I was the first one to notice!

[Stitches29]

It was just like my trip to City Hall to see a person I like to keep in touch with. The Survey Engineer came down the hall and said, "Whoa, you got one of those high dollar rats". I told him," Wrong, this is my diamond studded A-Hole Dog." I wanted to poke something , or is that cut something off?

[red98vett]

Originally Posted by eensor

I am! LOL But I was the first one to notice!

LMAO !!!

oh you just killed me with that one !! LOL !! that was way too funny

[StewiesMom]

All of your stories pissed me off. People can be SO dumb! I think I've told this before, but:

I was at my Vet's office and Stewie was getting his Rabies shot. Anyway, I was in the waiting room with Stewie on my lap waiting to be scene. At this time he was about 4lbs, maybe a little less. This woman comes out of one of the Vet's lab areas with a hard plastic carrier. She takes one look at Stewie and says

"Wow! Is that a Yorkie? His hair is a weird color and he's huge!"

at this time, Stewie's hair was changing color on his head and paws (LIKE YORKIES DO!)

She proceeds to pull out a 1lb puppy from her carrier who had not changed colors yet. It looked totally unhealthy; she started telling me how much she paid for her "teacup Yorkie breed" so she would stay small. Ugh. I hope her dog grows to be 7lbs just to show her what an idiot she really was.

[eensor]

Whatever happened to manners? "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!" Evidently these rude people had no proper upbringing! I hope that woman's yorkie is a 16 pounder!

[Kelz]

omg! i havent had any of these encounters with people yet..but you can bet if i do..i will def. speak my mind!! my mouth tends to get me in trouble sometimes! but i swear.. if anyone ever said anything about bentley.. IT'S ON!!

[txshopper73]

Originally Posted by Kelz

omg! i havent had any of these encounters with people yet..but you can bet if i do..i will def. speak my mind!! my mouth tends to get me in trouble sometimes! but i swear.. if anyone ever said anything about bentley.. IT'S ON!!

lol!!! For whatever reason, I wanted to poke everyone's eyes out yesterday that irritated me! There are people out there that have this idea of what a yorkie should look like. They probably saw the extra tiny one on Opra and said, "Hey, that must be the standard!" I'm 31 years old and people still amaze me with their ignorance!!!

[iheartyorkies]

I can usually forgive people for a lot of things but being ignorant and obnoxious really gets my goat!! That stupid lady probably that they were furry chiwawas (I can't spell worth a **** today!).

[StewiesMom]

Don't worry Cynthia, I'll just go behind you and correct you lol

Chihuahua

[brosie1823]

I have a pretty small puppy and when people see him, the first thing they ask is "how old is he" (4 months) and the second thing is "is he going to get any bigger". I just sit back and think..."is a 2 year old kid going to get any bigger?" Of course he is...he's a puppy. I am beginning to think that people expect yorkies and gineau (sp?) pigs to be the same size. People also ask me if he's a teacup or a miniature, which I answer with a roll of the eyes and a sarcastic "of course didn't you see the teaset I brought in with him". Ignorance irritates me to begin with. Ignorance when people think they are smart makes me want to poke their eyes out.

[Mystify79]

I haven't gotten too many rude comments about Pixie besides the usual frou frou dog crap but I used to get them all the time on Tuffy.. People were always telling me that they hated ankle biters like Maltese and that Maltese were stupid dogs.. what amazed me was that these people probably had never seen or met a Maltese in person before the day they saw Tuffy. I even had one lady tell me that she had a "rare black Maltese"..I told her that I hated to break the news to her but Maltese only come in variations of white. She looked at me like I had grown two heads and started arguing with me about what the breeder had told her about how Maltese come in all kinds of colors these days but to get a black one was especially rare. I didn't want to get into an argument with her about it so I told her to go look up on the AKC website to see the breed standard for Maltese. She huffed away from me after that. I wish I could have seen her "rare" Maltese to see what kind of breed(s) he actually was.

[Luvmypupster]

Originally Posted by Mystify79

I haven't gotten too many rude comments about Pixie besides the usual frou frou dog crap but I used to get them all the time on Tuffy.. People were always telling me that they hated ankle biters like Maltese and that Maltese were stupid dogs.. what amazed me was that these people probably had never seen or met a Maltese in person before the day they saw Tuffy. I even had one lady tell me that she had a "rare black Maltese"..I told her that I hated to break the news to her but Maltese only come in variations of white. She looked at me like I had grown two heads and started arguing with me about what the breeder had told her about how Maltese come in all kinds of colors these days but to get a black one was especially rare. I didn't want to get into an argument with her about it so I told her to go look up on the AKC website to see the breed standard for Maltese. She huffed away from me after that. I wish I could have seen her "rare" Maltese to see what kind of breed(s) he actually was.

I'm having a good laugh over that one! I too have heard of the "rare black maltese". I'm wondering if it's an urban legend. I hear the rude comments about ankle bitters , sissy dogs, etc. People asking "how much did you pay for her/him". People sometimes can be really uncouth. I took Bentley (my malt) to a obedience class and the trainer went on & on about using bits of weiners as training treats..."no dog EVER turns down a bite of weiner" he says. Anyway he walks around the huge circle of dogs and owners and offers a tasty bit of weiner to each canine pupil, (Have in mind that all these dogs are big dogs and Bentley was the only toy breed there) each dog inhales the tasty bite of hot dog and the trainer is pleased as punch nodding and smiling after each dog he says "see...no dog ever turns down a bite of weinie". Well, Bentley is the very last dog he comes to and of course there's no way on earth Bentley will take what this guy offers. Bentley just sticks his nose up and the air and turns his head away. the trainer then gives me the piece of weiner and tells me to give it to him...Bentley still doesn't want it. People started making comments like "he probably on eats caviar" and asking how much I paid for him. The entire time I have a feeling that people are looking at him in distaste like he was a sub form of dog..not a real dog. These people had pits, GSD, hunting dogs, etc. It was obvious that I was amongst a group of people whom disliked "ankle biters". Now I love big dogs too and have had my fair share of big dogs but I have never just formed an automatic dislike of any group of dogs. There are really people out there that hate small dogs. Needless to say, the class didn't make any money off me. We attended the coplimentary lesson but I refused to go back...Bentley didn't like those weiners anyway! People can be really rude.

[suzysmitt]

Look if they know so little about the breed then just consider the source, and overlook it. They were rude, but all you can do is explain to them that yorkies come in all sizes, and your dog isn't a mutant. Then ignore them.